Romance Sentimentale, 1930
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“Creative people, as I see them, are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of the “divine madness,” to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks. They do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being. They knock on silence for an answering music; they pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean.”
― Rollo May, The Courage to Create
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To us who have fought so long against all kinds of constancy, the levity of the young is a pleasant sight. They will don materialism, positivism, Kantianism, spiritualism, and so on, one after the other, till they realise that all theories, ideas and ideals are as of little consequence as the hoop-skirts and crinolines of our grandmothers. Then they will begin to live without ideals and pre-arranged purposes, without foresight, relying on chance and their own ready wit. This way, too, must be tried. Perhaps we shall do better by it.... Anyhow, it will be more fun.
Lev Shestov, All Things Are Possible
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When going back is what's next…
As today begins and the path forward looks like going back, it’s important to be leaning in and trusting God to help in the journey. When God calls us to it, He will get us through it. So today as we begin the journey back, we seek God’s wisdom and discernment to make sure we go about it the right way, with the right heart, mind, and intensions so that in and through it all He will receive the…
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When there is clarity, there is peace in mind, and the I recognize my purposes in my life.
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In your own art, bow your head over technique. Think of technique when you rise and when you go to bed. Forget purposes in the meanwhile; get to love technical processes; to glory in technical successes; get to see the world entirely through technical spectacles, to see it entirely in terms of what you can do. Then when you have anything to say, the language will be apt and copious.
—Robert Louis Stevenson
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[from my photo files :: brooklyn bridge in rearview]
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“Gurdjieff was decisive, that his school was a school of individuation, and that a man must find his own work in life. How should he know it, how choose it? That, no one else could tell him. There were certain laws about it, however —three in particular.
The goal of achievement which a man decides to aim at must be such that it involves no violation of moral norms.
Secondly, he must get something for himself out of it—whether it be money, health and happiness, or honour; genuine profit must accrue to himself.
Thirdly, the task he assumes must be neither too big for him, nor too small. If it be too big, he will incur failure, compensated by megalomania; if too small, his powers will decline even with success and his career will be embittered.
But provided these three conditions be fulfilled, it does not matter what any one thinks of a man’s work. All that is necessary is that it should fit him; and that it should be his true desire—if you like, his whim—to do it. For example, to have the best stamp-collection in the world would not appear to many people to be a life ambition of the highest dignity—and perhaps it is not.
But it is a job of a man’s size: and if it is your real whim, you had better live for it. Whether you succeed is, of course, another matter.
"Whilst they were talking in this vein, someone asked Gurdjieff if he would disclose his own ‘whim,’ and he said it was to live and teach so that there should be a new conception of God in the world, a change in the very meaning of the word.”
~ Philip Mairet, :: 'A.R. Orage: A Memoir'
[Thanks again Ian Sanders]
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name a food that would be qt for a baby to be obsessed with go
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[This is not fair to them. but KUBLAI: To me this conjecture does not seem to suit our purposes. It's like playing all the sports.]
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I am BEGGING younger drivers. drive carefully. give yourself room. for fuck's sake use your turn signals and don't fucking weave thru traffic. this is not a video game, this is real life and if you get into an accident, you could get killed or kill someone else VERY easily
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